Islamic Party of Egypt

The Islamic Party of Egypt, formerly known as the Peace and Development Party, was an Islamist political party in Egypt that was founded in April 2011 as the political wing of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad terrorist group. The party supported holding a popular referendum on the Camp David Accords, expanding Islamic banking, abolishing mixed-sex education in secondary schools, respecting private property, taking control of Egyptian state media, supporting progressive taxation, setting up a minimum and maximum wage depending on inflation, opposing the Freedom and Justice Party's views that Jews should be allowed to return to Egypt, and supporting the killing of Jews according to sharia law. The party's extreme right-wing views and its status as the political wing of a terrorist group meant that several party members were ineligible to be elected to public office.